Debra
is angry with Lundy, so they meet for lunch (at a beach cafe) to talk it
out.

She
tells him that she is angry because she had never given any real thought
to what would happen to their relationship after the case ended, but she
liked it that way, an open future filled with possibilities - and that
he had robbed her of that happy fantasy by assuming their relationship
would end when the case ended.

He
tells her that he worried that the novelty of dating a much older
man would wear off soon, and she would dump him.

During
the lunch, he gets a cell phone call from the office and they have to leave.

Q.
What is it actually in real life?

A. A casual
beach refreshment stand - and not in Miami.

Q.
Where can I find it in real life?

A. Right on
the beach. It's called the Kayak Cafe,and is located in a small park called Bayshore
Playground, located at 14 54th Place,
in Long Beach, CA.

That's on "Bayshore Beach",
on the east side of 54th Place, just
north of E. Ocean Blvd, where the Long Beach peninsula joins the mainland
- about a mile southeast of the Belmont Pier.

The small beach
park includes a small cluster of sporting facilities, playground equipment
for kids, and a co-op pre-school.

On the north
edge of the sports courts, right on the sand (next to the handball court),
there's a small, thatch-roofed bamboo structure where you can rent kayaks
(at $10 an hour), that acts as a beach refreshment stand, selling
snacks, French fries & beverages. (They also do parties and weddings
on the beach, by bringing in extra tables.)

The producers
used the thatch-topped framework of the café and elaborately dressed the
set to look like a much more sophisticated restaurant. But if you look
closely, you can still see the bare (bamboo) bones of the Kayak Kafe.

They shot two
other scenes at Bayshore Beach for this same episode: the scene
where Lila buys roofies from a drug dealer was shot
near the basketball courts. And the scene where Dexter plants evidence
against Doakes was shot at the end of the adjacent
pier.

(
I shot the photos below in 2008, showing a wider view of the tiki
hut area where they staged the dining scene. )

But
pull back a ways, and suddenly the restaurant doesn't look quite as
sophisticated...

Last season,
they used this same area for another restaurant scene
(and it was also glimpsed in the background during a scene where Dexter
arrived at the villain's lair), so I went
there to check it out last year, and shot photos of the area. I immediately
recognized it when I saw it again on the show.